Chap. 64.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of the char-
ter of the Old Dominion land company.

Approved January 16, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
five of the charter of the Old Dominion land company, a
eorporation duly chartered by order of the circuit court of
the city of Richmond, entered on the nineteenth day of
October, in the year of one thousand eight hundred and
eighty, and duly recorded as provided by law, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows—to wit: |

§ 5. The principal office of the company shall be kept
and its chief business transacted at Newport News, in the

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county of Warwick, state of Virginia, but the said com-
pany may have dealings and make investments outside of
the state of Virginia. Its principal land investments
shall be in the state of. Virginia and chiefly along and
near the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway as now
existing, or as the same may be hereafter extended. The
said company may have an office in the city of New York,
state of New York, at which such meetings of the stock-
holders and directors of the said company may be held
and such business transacted as the by-laws of said com-
pany may from time to time prescribe. In all other
respects, except as herein amended, the said charter shall
remain and be as it was before the passage of thie act.

2. That all the acts, deeds, and other transactions of
the said company heretofore made, done, executed, and
transacted at its office at Newport News or elsewhere shall
be as valid and binding as if the charter of the said com-
pany had located its principal office at Newport News and
required its chief business to be transacted at that place.
All taxes due or to become due the state of Virginia by
the company shall be paid in lawful money of the United
States and not in coupons.

3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.